As nowadays there are countless opportunities to gamble both live and online, it’s getting ever harder to decide where to risk your money.
Gambling has been with us for thousands of years. There is a lot of evidence from the ancient China, Rome or Greece which prove that even our ancestors loved to take chances.
Unlike them, we even have the opportunity to play online, where we can choose from a wide variety of games. The most popular games are poker, slots, and roulette. While slots and roulette are purely games of chance, poker is a different animal. The strategies of winning players’ have become very complex, they analyze their game, even study game theory.
Those, who want to compete against them, certainly need to learn the basics of playing poker for money. If you don’t know what a preflop range, a value bet or a bluff is, you should do your research online, where you can find tremendous amounts of videos and articles created by winning players.
However, some good news for the beginners is that inexperience can also be an advantage. While poker pros know the tactics of each other almost always, a unique, unpredictable style can benefit the rookies. Many amateur players managed to win huge, simply by not being afraid of the intimidating pros with the hoodies, sunglasses and straight faces.
Jamie Gold with some cash
In 2003, Chris Moneymaker, an accountant from Tennessee decided to play a $86 online satellite and got a seat in the World Series of Poker Main Event, where he managed to outlast a field of 839, filled with the best players of the game to bank $2.5 Million! In 2006, Jamie Gold, a producer from Hollywood also took a shot at the biggest stage of poker, and walked away with the biggest ever Main Event prize, $12,000,000!
The list goes on and on, proving that all players can win a life-changing score. The number one rule of life applies to gambling as well: be confident and believe in yourself!
Good luck at the tables!
